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Procedure price report · Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy

Esophagus exam with a flexible scope through the mouth

CPT 43200the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the mouth to look at the esophagus; no tissue sampling or treatment is included.

Hospitals typically charge $1,049 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,269 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,129. Most fall between $441 and $2,259 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,269
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,269 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$255$502$1,049$1,879$3,190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($255 vs $3,190).

How the prices are spread

$151 – $209: 38 hospitals$151$209 – $288: 60 hospitals$288 – $397: 57 hospitals$288$397 – $547: 122 hospitals$547 – $754: 125 hospitals$547$754 – $1,041: 162 hospitals$1,041 – $1,435: 180 hospitals$1,041$1,435 – $1,979: 166 hospitals$1,979 – $2,730: 124 hospitals$1,979$2,730 – $3,765: 110 hospitals$2,730median $1,049price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,144 of 1,269 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$151$20938
$209$28860
$288$39757
$397$547122
$547$754125
$754$1,041162
$1,041$1,435180
$1,435$1,979166
$1,979$2,730124
$2,730$3,765110

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$927
Median cash price$1,049
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,049.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $435 across 11 hospitalsNH$435Washington: median $1,001 across 41 hospitalsWA$1,001Idaho: median $1,823 across 11 hospitalsID$1,823Montana: median $520 across 16 hospitalsMT$520North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $824 across 48 hospitalsMN$824Illinois: median $615 across 42 hospitalsIL$615Wisconsin: median $965 across 44 hospitalsWI$965Michigan: median $473 across 32 hospitalsMI$473New York: median $1,109 across 58 hospitalsNY$1,109Massachusetts: median $1,782 across 32 hospitalsMA$1,782Oregon: median $738 across 37 hospitalsOR$738Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $590 across 32 hospitalsIA$590Indiana: median $493 across 27 hospitalsIN$493Ohio: median $2,317 across 64 hospitalsOH$2,317Pennsylvania: median $1,140 across 72 hospitalsPA$1,140New Jersey: median $3,539 across 40 hospitalsNJ$3,539Connecticut: median $1,312 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,312Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,553 across 102 hospitalsCA$1,553Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,030 across 20 hospitalsCO$1,030Nebraska: median $640 across 17 hospitalsNE$640Missouri: median $1,126 across 41 hospitalsMO$1,126Kentucky: median $431 across 13 hospitalsKY$431West Virginia: median $262 across 20 hospitalsWV$262Virginia: median $1,163 across 24 hospitalsVA$1,163Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $971 across 16 hospitalsNM$971Kansas: median $729 across 23 hospitalsKS$729Arkansas: median $735 across 16 hospitalsAR$735Tennessee: median $1,093 across 22 hospitalsTN$1,093North Carolina: median $1,139 across 17 hospitalsNC$1,139South Carolina: median $1,125 across 25 hospitalsSC$1,125Oklahoma: median $810 across 23 hospitalsOK$810Louisiana: median $610 across 28 hospitalsLA$610Mississippi: median $502 across 16 hospitalsMS$502Alabama: median $1,015 across 13 hospitalsAL$1,015Georgia: median $1,766 across 40 hospitalsGA$1,766Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $910 across 66 hospitalsTX$910Florida: median $2,776 across 35 hospitalsFL$2,776
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,049. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ40$3,539+237%$1,039 – $5,110
Florida FL35$2,776+165%$1,033 – $3,410
Ohio OH64$2,317+121%$511 – $2,834
Idaho ID11$1,823+74%$553 – $2,526
Massachusetts MA32$1,782+70%$1,162 – $2,523
Georgia GA40$1,766+68%$90 – $2,295
California CA102$1,553+48%$587 – $3,270
Connecticut CT11$1,312+25%$908 – $3,088
Virginia VA24$1,163+11%$609 – $1,296
Pennsylvania PA72$1,140+9%$626 – $2,612
North Carolina NC17$1,139+9%$813 – $2,330
Missouri MO41$1,126+7%$846 – $1,641
South Carolina SC25$1,125+7%$989 – $1,433
New York NY58$1,109+6%$328 – $2,254
Tennessee TN22$1,093+4%$388 – $2,575
Colorado CO20$1,030−2%$542 – $1,587
Alabama AL13$1,015−3%$633 – $2,597
Washington WA41$1,001−5%$552 – $1,843
New Mexico NM16$971−7%$634 – $2,616
Wisconsin WI44$965−8%$558 – $1,686
Texas TX66$910−13%$475 – $1,825
Minnesota MN48$824−21%$409 – $1,940
Oklahoma OK23$810−23%$144 – $1,912
Oregon OR37$738−30%$402 – $1,495
Arkansas AR16$735−30%$491 – $1,585
Kansas KS23$729−30%$243 – $1,202
Nebraska NE17$640−39%$523 – $1,049
Illinois IL42$615−41%$322 – $1,285
Louisiana LA28$610−42%$362 – $1,080
Iowa IA32$590−44%$364 – $661
Montana MT16$520−50%$226 – $1,454
Mississippi MS16$502−52%$433 – $1,066
Indiana IN27$493−53%$258 – $2,374
Michigan MI32$473−55%$332 – $965
New Hampshire NH11$435−58%$96 – $821
Kentucky KY13$431−59%$258 – $3,765
West Virginia WV20$262−75%$91 – $706
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,049.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care966$1,125$491 – $2,366
Children’s24$1,040$298 – $2,597
Critical access275$650$270 – $1,585
Ownership
For-profit114$1,172$577 – $2,456
Government216$915$332 – $1,829
Non-profit935$1,049$468 – $2,295
System affiliation
Part of a system1,027$1,104$475 – $2,317
Independent242$853$301 – $1,600

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,904
Median cash price$1,049
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

877 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,098 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,194; most fall between $436 and $2,269.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 877 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$221$511$1,098$1,939$3,074

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($221 vs $3,074).

Of the 941 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 877 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,269 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,360 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,269
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,360

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophagoscopy Flexible Transoral Diagnostic.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Esophagus exam with a flexible scope through the mouth (CPT 43200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43200-esophagus-exam-with-a-flexible-scope-through-the-mouth